In the healthcare context..social media is obviously a big deal..people love to discuss health issues - however, personal health data must be protected if the conversation becomes clinical and sensitive...IMHO...murray

Last month, a mix of scientists, videographers and surgeons made history, capturing an entire surgery in first-person 3D and then turning it into an Oculus Rift experience.

The end result is, the team hopes, a new way to train medical students and surgeons. The next step, according to the MOVEO Foundation, which funded the project, is to create the first "live surgery" operation that will be filmed and broadcast on a virtual reality helmet simultaneously.

Blue Goji, the latest startup from serial entrepreneurs Kai and Charles Huang, posits that fitness would be more fun if addictive mobile games were layered on top of cardio workouts. Starting today, the company will learn just how many exercisers feel the same.

MyFitnessPal, the eight-year-old diet-and-exercise community, has partnered with Blue Goji for a “limited launch” that will give its users special benefits for being early adopters.

Healthy Connections: Technology Promoting Family Health The Herald | HeraldOnline.com "This is a unique opportunity for Pro Mujer to partner with these prominent organizations in health and education and create a technology platform which has the...

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This came to my attention this morning. A truly global initiative. How can we expand this to Africa? Ideas?

Gamification is super smart! When you realize how unhappy most people are with their jobs, you also realize the oustanding potential for improvement that you have as a manager! Looking forward to trying some of these techniques!

So what steps do you need to get identify the type of games? These tips from the article will help:

For each employee, figure out what behaviors have the most impact.Make sure those employees know what is expected and have the tools, resources and support required to do what they need to do.Recognize and reward behavioral steps along the way as well as end results.

If you missed Apple's WWDC keynote, you should watch this. A company called Anki is taking AI not only to the next level but also to the real world. Their first product due this fall is a car-racing game where you fight AI-controlled cars on a real track.

This is fascinating to me because the big recent trend in gaming has been to downplay the importance of AI by bringing human players to play with or against one another. We also talk a lot about real-life gaming (humans with humans in the street) but I don't know if this will be that massive (still waiting to see Ingress get big). Now this is the missing combination: after human + AI, human + human online, human + human real-life, real-life + AI.

Too early to tell but great to see the gaming industry has perspective beyond reinventing the nth iteration of a point and shoot.

In an earlier post for paidContent, I looked at the broad similarities between the automotive-manufacturing industry and the media business — specifically newspapers — and how disruption has affected both in some fairly similar ways.

This post is related to your post about should social networks curate their own content. A: No and They Can't. The fire hose is too large, the speed of content development too fast and the old "editorial" stance too dead to play gatekeeper. There won't be any rekindling of the "mother may I past'. All "programed" content is becoming free form and WE are the schedulers, curators, and,l thanks to tools like Scoopit, capable of curating our own lives thank you very much :).

Look at the Huffington Post. As they push the boundaries of content co-opting more and more writers into their fold they also begin to untangle their own web. As any platform reaches some "point of diminishing returns" point it must begin to eat itself.

Once any website is HUGE becoming that much more dominant doesn't make financial sense. Sure there are virtual cycle rewards. The compound interest of the web is LINKS and the bigger you are the easier links are to accrue.

As any content play becomes HUGE its ability to create a relevant relationship with any new or existing customer is under greater stress. The Huffington Post can keep adding writers but then you are just reading my blog with their masthead (makes no sense and adds no value).

Our old friend entropy says Huffington is about to regress to some lesser mean In fact, I think the creation of mega-platforms as a concept (despite my love for it up until TODAY lol) is over.

Let's call our emerging "lean content" trend rich mobile snippets with gamification. By mashing up what is already out there in the water tomorrow's hubs will curate in multiple dimensions: writers, keyword density and rich tagged snippets. All of this curating will create more free-formed "mesh-like" structures (to quote Lisa Gansky).

What is the difference between a mesh and a platform? Platforms aggregate UGC, curation and content creation to a PLACE. Meshes are less proprietary. Meshes will trap anything from anywhere based on the algorithms used.

Being content agnostic but tag specific is a Google-ization of content, a flexible keyword and behavioral (who cares about what content and why) mesh more responsive, open and flexible than even the most aggressive and currently dominant hub (like the Huffington Post).

The future will be as hard on the Huffington Post as it has been on the New York Times. As an aggregator Huffington may have more pivot capacity than their print cousins, but no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition :).

Guest post written by Thomas Morrow Thomas Morrow, M.D., has 25 years experience across the healthcare industry. He currently serves as an unpaid advisor to Next IT, and a medical director at Genentech.

I agree it will take time Sven, the interesting thing for me is that we have moved so quickly already. In a short space of time we have gone through the the democratization of information, into the even more powerful connectivity to each other and are coming out of the other side looking at big data and artificial intelligence shaping personal health management on a scale unimaginable 15 years ago. Technology becomes revolutionary though when it is no longer exciting but mundane and ubiquitous.

"Go Somewhere and get functionality as opposed to Bring Something To Me to get functionality" Agreed, this is an interesting look back at the recent past that speaks to the current issues in mobile Application Development..Native Mobile Apps versus Web-based Mobile Apps...going way back in the early mobile internet days we argued aboutthe "walled garden" approach that operator's were using to try and "contain" a subscriber community within their - the operator's - ecosystem..

This post dates back to 2011 but it explains with great clarity the limitations of Apps as a platform. And the ongoing tensions between native Appsand Web Apps that I already addressed here. Interesting read.

Excellent statistics. My Questions: Is Indian culture more open to mobile health services than North America? Are North American data privacy concerns slowing the adoption of m-health initiatives in the U.S.A. and Canada?

Five years into the future, doctors will be empowered with a wide array of exponential technologies and will become the most efficient they have ever been. Physicians or artificial intelligence systems will have the ability to know your health status, perhaps even before you do, thanks to the combination of three important factors: artificial intelligence, electronic medical records/digital medicine and sensor technology.

I am facinated by how technology will improve healthcare. More, and better information can always help in diagnosis and health care delivery. I am looking forward to Hacking Health Connect in Toronto...

Seeing great photography, I mean off-the-chart great photographs makes want to kick myself for not shooting every day! Something I noticed is there is a LOT of exciting experimental photographs in this collection. Some techniques I recognized. Some I can figure out, maybe. Others shots simply blow.Me. Away!

We’ve been in “New Mobile” – a world of wireless broadband and mobile OS platforms enabling great end user experiences – for about 5 years. The improvement in the capabilities of devices has been astonishing. But in truth we are still in the first inning of New Mobile reshaping just about everything we do and everywhere we do it.

From the original article by Tom George on his "Internet Billboards".Here are some interesting excerpts from the post about content curation."After having spent the better part of four years curating content from renowned bloggers, journalists and authors as well as building a platform here on Internet Billboards, which has evolved into a wonderful community of content curator’s.

Here is my definition of content curation. A content curator is someone who finds, organizes, presents and shares valuable information (content) in many forms, on a specific topic, in a way that provides special context and or a unique engagement with his or her readers. In actuality when done correctly, over time it positions the curator as an expert in his or her respective field and defines their reputation as a thought leader.

A good curator will mix curation with his or her own original content, to give interpretations for the express purpose of allowing others to form their own conclusions....Why curation and crowdsourcing will and should become more important to you. I will give you ten reasons.1. There is just too much content;2. Social Sites Are Full Of Spam;3. Privacy concerns with big data;4. Limiting risk and using many minds;5. Technology must assist us and help us not hinder us;6. People Will recognize the need to build meaningful relationships;7. Information will flow freely;8. Trust and authority will be the new currency;9. Curation helps you establish relationships with thought leaders; 10. Crowd Sourcing can make things possible..."

In a recent post for The Atlantic, Derek Thompson investigates what drives people to read content online. As a writer for a popular news site, it’s of interest to Thompson to find out what people are clicking on and why when navigating through the endless amount of web content available. Though it sounds like a boring study of analytics at first, his findings and references are actually super interesting.

Investigating how the consumer interacted with traditional media and how the social media differs is one of the most fascinating studies for marketing and communications fold to undertake.

Some (myself included) would argue that very little has changed since the newspaper was King of the Hill. The same rules to engaging with carefully selected demographics apply, the same headline rules, the same intro paragraphy rules.

Grabd the reader's attention and make sure they stick.

The difference is the social media channels go far beyond simple print in sharability, targeting can be much more precise and engagement is taken to a whole new MEASURABLE level.

A few years ago, Hawking was asked what he thought of the common opinion that the twentieth century was that of biology and the twenty-first century would be that of physics. Hawking replied that in his opinion the twenty-first century would be the “century of complexity”. That remark probably holds more useful advice for contemporary students than they realize since it points to at least two skills which are going to be essential for new college grads in the age of complexity: statistics and data visualization.

Emotion is an amazing neuroprocess...by understanding the link between emotions and the physical body one can speed most any healing processes. Negative emotion = negative consequences...+ve emotion = +ve consequences...

Mobile phones are already well on their way to replacing cameras, cash, maps, remote controls, handheld gaming systems, boarding passes, tickets, cash registers, calculators, notepads, and much more. And they’re becoming globally ubiquitous: 1.6 billion phones were shipped last year; and by the end of this year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use.

So the question is not so much what smartphones can do, it’s what can’t they do. And the strategic imperative for organizations is to understand how they are going to meet the challenge of that change.

A week after sharing its vision of the top 15 emerging technologies, Forrester shared its view of the near future of mobile in analyst Thomas Husson’s report, released today.

This is a challenge and an opportunity for organizations globally. However, there are still people who are not able to afford these seemingly ubiquitous tools. How can we provide the world with equal access to information?

Do people deserve the right to access? or is this something that they should own?

This is a good point, however access is complex and we cannot make assumptions. For example NHS Direct data in the UK suggests that those most accessing health information from a smartphone device were actually from the lower socio economic groups with the phone the families only access to the internet. So we need to be cautious when dismissing groups of people from the mobile equation :-)

According to surveys of art books and exhibitions, artists prefer poses showing the left side of the face when composing a portrait and the right side when composing a self-portrait. However, it is presently not known whether similar biases can be observed in individuals that lack formal artistic training. We collected self-portraits by naïve photographers who used the iPhone™ front camera, and confirmed a right side bias in this non-artist sample and even when biomechanical constraints would have favored the opposite. This result undermines explanations based on posing conventions due to artistic training or biomechanical factors, and is consistent with the hypothesis that side biases in portraiture and self-portraiture are caused by biologically- determined asymmetries in facial expressiveness.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.